Publications by authors named "Milva Nuzzo"
Article Synopsis
- Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a sickness caused by bad food or water that can make kids very sick and sometimes need hospital care.
- A study looked at 103 kids aged 0 to 15 who were treated for AGE at a hospital in Lecce, Italy, and found that most of the infections were caused by viruses and bacteria.
- Young children under 5 were more likely to get really dehydrated from AGE, and preventing it could get better with cleaner food and water, plus more vaccines.
is a Gram-positive bacteria and etiological agent of listeriosis. It has the ability to colonize the intestinal lumen and cross the intestinal, blood-brain, and placental barriers, leading to invasive listeriosis responsible for septicemia and meningitis in subjects at risk such as patients with diabetes mellitus, the elderly, and immunocompromised individuals and, for maternal-neonatal infection in pregnant women. We report a rare case of septicemia and meningitis complicated by fungemia on a patient with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, hypertension, chronic kidney failure, chronic ischemic vascular encephalopathy, and atrial fibrillation.
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